Here we must remember the difficult definition of Christianity already given; Christianity is a superhuman paradox whereby two opposite passions may blaze beside each other.

The one explanation of the Gospel language that does explain it, is that it is the survey of one who from some supernatural height beholds some more startling synthesis.
I take in order the next instance offered: the idea that Christianity belongs to the dark ages.

Here I did not satisfy myself with reading modern generalisations; I read a little history.

And in history I found that Christianity, so far from belonging to the dark ages, was the one path across the dark ages that was not dark.

It was a shining bridge connecting two shining civilisations.